Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump greets Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at a Turning Point Action campaign rally, Oct. 23, 2024,

More than 1,900 scientists have signed a letter to send an “SOS” about US President Donald Trump’s attacks on science.

“A climate of fear has descended on the research community,” warned the letter, published on Monday by members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

“We see real danger in this moment,” the letter continued. “We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated.”

Since his second term began, Trump has paused critical meetings within the Department of Health and Human Services,

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